How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economyDigital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape.
How the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its peopleSince 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivaled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people.
A timely account of the Euro crisis that challenges our assumptions about debt and economic recoveryOriginally conceived as part of a unifying vision for Europe, the euro is now viewed as a millstone around the neck of a continent crippled by vast debts, sluggish economies, and growing populist dissent.
Why have countries increasingly restricted immigration even when they have opened their markets to foreign competition through trade or allowed their firms to move jobs overseas?
An acclaimed examination of how the American political system favors the wealthy-now fully revised and expandedThe first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality.
How philosophical differences between Eurozone nations led to the Euro crisis-and where to go from hereWhy is Europe's great monetary endeavor, the Euro, in trouble?
How to harness capitalism's dynamism to create an economy that promotes well-being and rewards creationThe recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy.
States of Credit provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern eras.
With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation.
Finance expert, law professor, and fellow overwhelmed consumer Kathryn Judge investigates the surprising ways that middlemen have taken control of the economy at the expense of the rest of us, and provides practical guidance about how to regain control, find more meaning, and contribute to a more sustainable economy.
ASan Francisco ChronicleBestseller An NPR Best Book of the YearTheNew York TimessGlobal Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires systematic plunder of the worldbrazenly accelerated during the pandemichas transformed 21st-century life and dangerously destabilized democracy.
This book is the first volume in a three-volume series that takes an in-depth look at the relevance of Marx's economics for understanding the modern economy.
This book explores in detail how African countries dealt with the pandemic and how it affected different aspects of different economies and social structures.
How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggleCan the international economic and legal system survive today's fractured geopolitics?
***One of Barack Obama's best books of 2024***Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the YearA revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethink itOver the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from poverty and made our lives far healthier and longer.
How differences in national financial regulatory systems emerged from divergent beliefs about economic order and prosperityThe global financial crisis of the late 2000s was marked by the failure of regulators to rein in risk-taking by banks.
Five years after Ronald Ross discovered the link between malaria and mosquitos, American entomologist Leland Howard wrote of the "e;mosquito evil"e; that occurs when "e;everybody's business is nobody's business.
'EXCELLENT' - THE TLS'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAILThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Deutschlands Weg zuruck an die Weltspitze: Die schonungslose Analyse des Wirtschaftsstandortes vom Handelsblatt-ChefredakteurDeutschland hat das Automobil erfunden, das Aspirin und die elektrische Stra enbahn.
A bold retelling of the story of capitalism that treats the core concepts of economics as living, breathing beings, blending fiction and fact to upend 250 years of economic orthodoxyFor 250 years, a ghostly hand bloodied and invisible has scripted our lives.
The explosive story of the biggest mistakes in history from Anthony Scaramucci, the man who saw America s wrong moves up close, the White House insider turned host of the hit podcast The Rest Is Politics: US'Essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of the mess the world is in' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL & RORY STEWART'Challenging, surprising and always engaging.
A world gripped by economic precarity, where families teeter on the edge of debt and dependency, The False Dichotomy of Capitalism and Socialism: A Christian Alternative offers a profound critique and visionary path forward.
